Consider these numbers: Registration among Hispanics nationwide
is down 5 percent. But even more troubling is in key swing states
like New Mexico and Florida, where registration is down 28 and 10
percent, respectively.

The decline in minority registration “is obviously an area of
concern,” said Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, president
of NDN, a left-leaning think tank.

But he predicted the Obama campaign “will have enough money and
enough focus to mitigate the problem. . . . They have five months
to get the electorate looking the way they want.”

The voter registration for both black and Hispanic voters
rose by a combined 7.6 percent in the 2008
election.

Now this:

Pew Research Center

That shows how voter registration affected turnout. And in
overwhelming numbers, those voters picked Obama. He won the
Latino vote 67 percent to John McCain's 30 percent, and only 5
percent of black voters picked McCain.

“I think the more we talk about the issues and the more we have
Republicans going into local communities and saying, ‘This is
what Republicans believe in. This is what Democrats believe in,’
Hispanics are going to make decisions for themselves," Inclan
told Business
Insider.